B794 crash in Dumfries and Galloway on 30 September 2018 at 16:00 involving a Honda Accord
A motorcycle and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the B794 in Dumfries and Galloway at 16:00 on Sunday 30 September 2018. The 16-year-old female rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Sep 2018
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 54.97696, longitude -3.86421, in the DG7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Dumfries and Galloway
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018982108818
- Council area
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police force
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Dumfries & Galloway
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 794
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 19 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 October 2002.
Slight
Car crash on the B794 in Dumfries and Galloway, 23 October 2002
19 m awayRef 2002982021602
Serious
Car crash on the B794 in Dumfries and Galloway, 27 October 1988
19 m awayRef 1988980020309
Slight
Car crash on the B794 in Dumfries and Galloway, 12 October 2006
260 m awayRef 2006982118406
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 11 May 2001
267 m awayRef 2001982007701
Slight
Yamaha crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 3 July 1996
267 m awayRef 1996982013196
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Dumfries and Galloway, 9 December 2010
288 m awayRef 2010982119710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 16 years
- Engine capacity
- 49 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 22 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,254 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2018982108818 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dumfries and Galloway road accident statistics for 2018.